I thought people would be interested to hear this story about the flooding in Ayutthaya. Rojana Industrial Estate just outside the town is under threat of flooding some time over the next 24 hours. Honda, Panasonic have huge factories there. Yesterday Honda shipped out all their cars in storage to a safer location. Well it seems that the prospect of billions of baht of damage and thousands of lost jobs has been averted due to the willingness of a village behind the estate who have agreed to allow their land and homes to be flooded to save the jobs on Rojana. Heard this from a factory owner on the estate. He seemed very relieved but I guess we will still have to wait and see if this helps. Amazing act of generosity on their part but I wonder if they will ever be properly compensated if at all?

Edited October 6, 201114 yr by pj123

Thai factories inundated after embankment collapses

Looks like it did flood Rojana overnight (Saturday to Sunday) - looks very serious for BKK's riverfront areas.

Asia One - Thai Factories...

Many factories in the Rojana Industrial Park of flood-hit Ayutthaya were heavily inundated yesterday evening after a section of a six-metre-high earth-filled embankment collapsed under high water pressure.

Efforts to repair the two-metre-long collapsed section continued into the night.

A Honda Automobile (Thailand) factory, which is located right in front of the damaged section, was the first to be hit by the rushing flood waters. The Honda factory was under 30 centimetres of water.

Another 20 factories in the industrial estate also got flooded. The estate, in the province's Uthai district, houses some 200 factories that mostly manufacture automotive parts and electronic products, according to a reporter.

Soldiers, rescue workers, and factory employees were racing against time to rebuild the damaged section of the embankment with sandbags.

Estimated damage was not known last night and unauthorised personnel were not allowed inside the factory compound.

Earlier, finished cars from the Honda factory had already been moved elsewhere and part of the factory's production line was suspended due to fears of flooding.